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Alright, you’re ready to start working on creating a resume that WOWS potential employers. Solid. A necessary first step towards landing the perfect career is making a good resume. But whatever you do, don’t get onto Google and start copying those same templates the car wash attendants are using to claim their water-logged fame. If you want a legitimate career with potential for growth, you need to set yourself apart, especially when creating a resume.

Here are six simple steps to creating a resume that really stands out.

1. Make Something Out of Nothing When Creating a Resume—Creative White Space

Rather than fill the page with unnecessary words, use extra white space when creating a resume. This allows less information that could potentially ruin your potential as an employee while giving the impression that you have offered a lot of information. It also creates the subliminal impression that you offer a lot of substance with a little effort. You do not have to delve into everything in detail because when creating a resume your actions speak for themselves.

2. Avoid Getting too Creative With Font Styles and Sizes

Don’t settle for creating a resume that looks like you wrote it while on mushrooms, even if you were. All those different font sizes and styles are distracting and symbolize a chaotic individual. Employers don’t want chaotic, they want stable and sober. Don’t ask me why—people are picky these days.

3. When Possible, Include Bullet Points

Bullets send a signal to the brain that a new part of the text has begun. This helps to process the information quickly, get to the next point, and keep moving on. So use a lot of bullet points when creating a resume. Their subconscious mind is processing the signal that you are an easy, organized employee who makes life easier on them.

4. Split Big Paragraphs up into Chunks of 2 or 3 Sentences

It is much easier too read text that is split up into small chunks. Keep this in mind when creating a resume. This allows the eyes too skim easily without losing place. Imagine a book with no paragraph indentations. You’d likely never make it past the first two chapters.

Not only do you not want your manager tiring out from reading your resume, you also want to avoid the meaning they will attribute to the extra effort they had to put in just to read the thing. Their subconscious will immediately decide that you are more trouble then you’re worth. Focus on creating a resume that’s straight forward and easily readable.

5. Don’t Use a Jagged Format; Everything Should be Flush on the Left

This rugged resume design comes across looking sloppy and amateur. A big rookie mistake! It’s just how the human brain works—we like visually symmetrical material. If we don’t adhere to this we start going nuts, trying to bite our own ear off, and chasing our tails in circles. Well, that happens to some of us—the rest of us just judge you and don’t even know why.

6.Keep the Text Vertically Centered

Also a problem with symmetry, the human brain likes that perfect balance on all edges of the paper. How crazy would it drive you to hold a piece of paper in your hand that started 2/3 from the top? Visually pleasing layout is what you’re going for. If you have good organization when creating a resume, it will signal good organization skills. Employers love an organizer because they make things happen and keep the team on track.

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If you have any suggestions on how you’ve successfully went about creating a resume, please share them in the comments below!